[Javascript] Re: Opening file in another app

[phumes1 at home.com]

At 08:11 PM 10/18/01 -0500, you wrote:

>         Ah so.
>
>         If you want a clicked file to open in UltraEdit, then it must be the
>primary app registered for that file type.

It is.

>Basically, you're not going to
>be able to do this without telling all of your users to make registry
>tweaks... which probably won't happen.

What type of registry tweaks?

>|-----Original Message-----
>|From: javascript-admin at LaTech.edu [mailto:javascript-admin at LaTech.edu]On
>|Behalf Of phumes1 at home.com
>|Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 6:11 PM
>|To: javascript at LaTech.edu
>|Subject: Re: [Javascript] Re: Opening file in another app
>|
>|
>|
>|UltraEdit is setup to open .txt and .dat file extensions. I'm not sure how
>|to get it to open up in UltraEdit from a link
>|with my page?
>|
>|
>|At 04:45 PM 10/18/01 -0500, you wrote:
>|
>|>     If the user has an application registered to handle the
>|pertinent file
>|>type, then it will be opened in that application.  You can't
>|really control
>|>this from the server (although you can force it to save instead of opening
>|>by pushing an unknown mimetype).
>|>
>|>----- Original Message -----
>|>From: <phumes1 at home.com>
>|>To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>|>Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 4:08 PM
>|>Subject: [Javascript] Re: Opening file in another app
>|>
>|>
>|>|
>|>| I have a list of files which have <a href"">...</a> around them. When a
>|>| user clicks on a link, how can I have that "filename" open in
>|UltraEdit or
>|>| WordPad on the users PC? Has anyone done anything like this?
>|>|
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